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Privacy Next Feedback on the Digital Omnibus Proposal COM(2025)837

Privacy Next provided a response to the European Commission’s call for feedback on the Digital Omnibus proposal for a regulation – COM(2025)836. The Digital Omnibus proposal comes at a time when the regional organisation and its Member States are pursuing a range of policy priorities – competitiveness, simplification, better enforcement, increased cooperation, and more efficiency are all identified as necessary matters to address. Privacy Next is of the view that these are not mutually exclusive choices in the process of legislative reform. The data governance framework has been built recognising the need to adapt to the technical and social developments in society while maintaining sufficient safeguards for the protection of personal data. Both objectives must be pursued to ensure the effective functioning of the EU’s Single/internal market.

The feedback submitted by Privacy Next raised the following key points:

• GDPR has expanded into a “law of everything,” overextending its scope and weakening the data protection framework
• Supervisory authorities are overwhelmed by individual complaints, undermining enforcement, consistency, and public guidance on GDPR implementation.
• An overemphasis on individual data protection claims has sidelined GDPR’s equally important objective of enabling the free movement of personal data.
• A recalibration of GDPR priorities is needed to better balance fundamental rights, economic competitiveness, and administrative feasibility.